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Discharge Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2024-25): No 31/7246

The Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Local Government (鈥渢he Minister鈥�), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following determination:

Citation

1. This determination may be cited as the Discharge Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2024-25): No 31/7246

Purpose of the grant

2. The purpose of the grant is to provide support to local authorities in England towards expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them, up to 31 March 2025.

3. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is providing this funding to support local authorities to build additional adult social care and community-based reablement capacity to reduce hospital discharge delays through delivering sustainable improvements to services for individuals.

Determination

4. The Minister determines as the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid, the authorities and the amounts set out in Annex A.

Grant conditions

5. Pursuant to section [31(3) and] 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Minister determines that the grant will be paid subject to the conditions in Annex B.

Treasury consent

6. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister obtained the consent of the Treasury.

UK Government Branding

7. The recipient authority shall at all times during and following the end of the funding period:

7.1 comply with requirements of the Branding Manual in relation to the funded activities; and

7.2 cease use of the 鈥淔unded by UK Government鈥� logo on demand if directed to do so by the Authority.

8. Branding Manual means the HM Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 鈥楩unded by UK Government branding manual](https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/guidance/marketing/branding-guidelines/)鈥� first published by the Cabinet Office in November 2022 including any subsequent updates from time to time.

Signed by authority of the Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Local Government

Angelica Larkin, Deputy Director
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
April 2024

Annex A: Discharge Fund allocations to local authorities 2024-25

Local Authority*	Discharge Fund 2024-25
Barking And Dagenham	拢2,501,842
Barnet	拢2,248,203
Barnsley	拢3,142,919
Bath And North East Somerset	拢1,145,657
Bedford	拢795,582
Bexley	拢1,545,953
Birmingham	拢15,870,077
Blackburn with Darwen	拢1,950,881
Blackpool	拢2,541,170
Bolton	拢3,475,791
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	拢3,140,153
Bracknell Forest	拢356,309
Bradford	拢5,465,005
Brent	拢3,118,175
Brighton And Hove	拢2,210,253
Bristol	拢3,975,962
Bromley	拢1,806,343
Buckinghamshire Council	拢1,177,860
Bury	拢1,782,494
Calderdale	拢1,971,283
Cambridgeshire	拢3,544,989
Camden	拢3,008,204
Central Bedfordshire	拢650,119
Cheshire East	拢2,034,249
Cheshire West and Chester	拢2,529,412
City of London	拢75,627
Cornwall	拢5,691,206
Coventry	拢3,688,931
Croydon	拢2,331,526
Cumberland	拢3,415,329
Darlington	拢1,048,716
Derby	拢2,814,487
Derbyshire	拢8,349,439
Devon	拢6,805,895
Doncaster	拢3,811,151
Dorset Council	拢2,909,250
Dudley	拢3,885,297
Durham	拢7,212,475
Ealing	拢2,962,749
East Riding of Yorkshire	拢2,715,451
East Sussex	拢5,088,412
Enfield	拢2,739,948
Essex	拢10,837,475
Gateshead	拢2,660,648
Gloucestershire	拢4,679,047
Greenwich	拢3,606,410
Hackney	拢3,887,410
Halton	拢1,631,460
Hammersmith And Fulham	拢2,343,005
Hampshire	拢7,308,878
Haringey	拢2,291,403
Harrow	拢1,557,029
Hartlepool	拢1,252,026
Havering	拢1,594,747
Herefordshire	拢1,584,906
Hertfordshire	拢5,503,956
Hillingdon	拢1,744,957
Hounslow	拢1,910,027
Isle of Wight	拢1,444,070
Isles of Scilly	拢19,041
Islington	拢3,388,340
Kensington And Chelsea	拢1,790,319
Kent	拢11,686,630
Kingston upon Hull	拢4,187,359
Kingston upon Thames	拢429,907
Kirklees	拢4,164,306
Knowsley	拢2,834,877
Lambeth	拢3,492,439
Lancashire	拢12,839,131
Leeds	拢7,393,289
Leicester	拢4,102,317
Leicestershire	拢4,133,661
Lewisham	拢3,491,339
Lincolnshire	拢8,004,560
Liverpool	拢8,411,842
Luton	拢1,748,021
Manchester	拢7,418,673
Medway	拢1,707,502
Merton	拢1,170,582
Middlesbrough	拢2,020,229
Milton Keynes	拢1,443,144
Newcastle upon Tyne	拢3,942,731
Newham	拢4,017,287
Norfolk	拢9,257,435
North East Lincolnshire	拢1,883,000
North Lincolnshire	拢1,691,199
North Northamptonshire	拢2,692,612
North Somerset	拢1,632,343
North Tyneside	拢2,238,155
North Yorkshire	拢4,049,035
Northumberland	拢2,919,808
Nottingham	拢3,879,480
Nottinghamshire	拢7,224,972
Oldham	拢2,614,146
Oxfordshire	拢2,501,441
Peterborough	拢1,747,775
Plymouth	拢3,021,992
Portsmouth	拢2,013,364
Reading	拢629,170
Redbridge	拢2,355,651
Redcar And Cleveland	拢1,618,823
Richmond upon Thames	拢181,424
Rochdale	拢2,868,923
Rotherham	拢3,383,583
Rutland	拢51,130
Salford	拢3,291,688
Sandwell	拢5,379,281
Sefton	拢3,674,579
Sheffield	拢6,843,975
Shropshire	拢2,772,051
Slough	拢932,183
Solihull	拢1,506,429
Somerset	拢5,461,339
South Gloucestershire	拢1,082,481
South Tyneside	拢2,449,975
Southampton	拢2,501,325
Southend-on-Sea	拢1,821,995
Southwark	拢4,170,284
St. Helens	拢2,450,857
Staffordshire	拢7,642,936
Stockport	拢2,269,178
Stockton-on-Tees	拢1,675,817
Stoke-on-Trent	拢3,597,902
Suffolk	拢6,778,023
Sunderland	拢4,365,730
Surrey	拢2,665,722
Sutton	拢950,323
Swindon	拢1,260,732
Tameside	拢2,940,706
Telford And Wrekin	拢1,828,085
Thurrock	拢1,301,383
Torbay	拢2,065,023
Tower Hamlets	拢3,927,968
Trafford	拢1,921,750
Wakefield	拢4,071,007
Walsall	拢3,313,591
Waltham Forest	拢2,216,628
Wandsworth	拢3,968,836
Warrington	拢1,451,268
Warwickshire	拢3,536,104
West Berkshire	拢188,450
Westmorland and Furness	拢2,173,973
West Northamptonshire	拢2,352,771
West Sussex	拢4,816,440
Westminster	拢4,123,941
Wigan	拢3,916,938
Wiltshire	拢2,393,210
Windsor And Maidenhead	拢527,237
Wirral	拢4,495,437
Wokingham	拢110,250
Wolverhampton	拢3,449,153
Worcestershire	拢4,445,333
York	拢1,254,495
England	拢500,000,000

*Funding paid to local authorities with responsibility for social care only.

Allocations may not sum to exact totals due to rounding.

Annex B: Grant conditions

1. In this Annex:

a. 鈥渁 recipient authority鈥� means a local authority listed in Annex A to this determination;

b. 鈥渢he Department鈥� means the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities;

a. 鈥渢he Minister鈥� means the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government

Use of grant

2. A recipient authority must:

a. Pool this funding into the local Better Care Fund (BCF), with plans for health and social care spend (including mental health) agreed by the local authority and integrated care board chief executive, and signed off by the Health and Wellbeing Board under national condition 1 of the BCF by 10 June.

b. Use this funding, in conjunction with wider funding (including relevant Better Care Fund investment) to build additional adult social care and community-based reablement capacity to reduce hospital discharge delays through delivering sustainable improvements to services for individuals.

c. Plan how best to deploy this funding over the funding period of 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, taking account of likely variation in levels of demand over the course of the year, including winter pressures. Local authorities must work with local providers to determine how best to build the workforce capacity needed for additional services.

d. Deploy the funding in ways that support the principles of 鈥楧ischarge to Assess鈥�, to enable timely discharge from hospital with appropriate short-term support, where needed, pending assessment of long-term care needs.

e. 1. Local authorities must deploy the funding in ways that take account of learning from previous discharge funding, including but not limited to the evaluation of the 2022 to 2023 Discharge Fund published on 11 December 2023.

f. Submit plans for how they intend to deploy the funding and comply with the reporting requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Annex.

3. A recipient authority must not:

a. Use this funding to compensate for expenditure already incurred, activities for which the local authority has already earmarked or allocated expenditure, or to fund inflationary pressures.

b. Use this funding for activities which do not support the primary purpose of this grant.

Reporting requirements

4. Local authorities will be required to work with their integrated care board to provide the following to the BCF programme team, as part of their BCF plan, using compulsory templates made available through the BCF exchange:

a. A report detailing how the local authority plans to spend all their allocation over 2024-25, due by 10 June 2024. This must outline how the local authority plans to use the funding to increase expenditure on discharge and confirm that the use of the funding has been agreed by the local authority and the integrated care board. One planned spending report must be submitted per local authority;

b. Quarterly activity reports, setting out what activities have been delivered in line with commitments in the spending plan; and,

c. A final spending report provided to the department alongside the wider end of year BCF reports.

5. The government may follow up with local authorities to better understand the approach taken to planning use of the funding, and reserves the right to require ad hoc additional reporting to be provided in certain types of circumstances. This may include but is not limited to circumstances where:

a. it is reasonably believed that spending plans collected in paragraph 4 above may potentially breach funding conditions; or,

b. data shows that delayed discharges are significantly higher or increasing at a greater rate than national averages; or,

c. reported and planned spend varies significantly; or,

d. there are concerns about the quality of reporting.

6. Local authorities must engage fully with this process where necessary. Integrated care boards (including relevant trusts) and local authorities will be expected to implement recommendations provided by the support programme teams.

7. Local authorities may use up to 2% of their total allocation for reasonable administrative costs associated with distributing and reporting on this funding.

Payment arrangements

8. The grant funding set out in Annex A will be paid in monthly instalments.

9. Funding from the grant must be spent within the designated financial year. If any funding from the grant is not spent within the designated financial year, the Minister may require repayment of the grant monies paid, as may be determined by the Minister and notified in writing to the recipient authority.

Financial management

10. The recipient authority must maintain a sound system of internal financial controls.

11. If a recipient authority has any grounds for suspecting financial irregularity in the use of any grant paid under this funding agreement, it must notify the department immediately, explain what steps are being taken to investigate the suspicion and keep the Department informed about the progress of the investigation. For these purposes 鈥榝inancial irregularity鈥� includes fraud or other impropriety, mismanagement, and the use of grant for purposes other than those for which it was provided.

Breach of conditions and recovery of grant

12. If the recipient authority fails to comply with any of these conditions, or if any overpayment is made under this grant, or any amount is paid in error, the Secretary of State may reduce, suspend or withhold grant payments or require the repayment of the whole or any part of the grant monies paid, as may be determined by the Secretary of State and notified in writing to the local authority.

13. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the Secretary of State who may set off the sum against any future amount due to the recipient authority from central government.